Brain Dead

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2004)

Hey, I love post apocalypse movies...but this one really stinks!
The idea is brilliant but o-my-god the delivery stinks! Could someone please tell these idiots that eventually the zombies will starve and they will be safe to go outside again? And since when do folks loose all vestiges of humanity in 28 days? (On second thought, it happened in a few days of no food or water during Katrina.) Well, I guess as a zombie movie it works (zombie movies are supposed to be demented) but I was hoping for a really gripping deadly virus flick and was sorely disappointed.
If you want a good virus movie...watch 'The Andromeda Strain.' If you want a good last humans on earth movie watch, 'The Day of the Triffids (1962) or better yet...'The Day After' (1983) (TV). As my daughter would say...Like way better...creepy!
Well, I watched it again on Halloween 2006 and it was better in the second viewing. I think because I was not expecting to be wowed with science this time. I forgot to mention in my first review how wonderful it is to see the great Cillian Murphy in anything. He is just so damn cute and so capable as an actor. One of my favorites.